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This was one of those not-quite-there activities. I brought home some Mickey Mouse paint chips from Home Depot for us to match. And I threw in some colored clips I found at the dollar store. I tested out a lot of those little springy clips. These were the easiest to open, but they’re still a little tough for your tiny fingers. It got you frustrated trying to open them and clip them on to the paper like you saw Momma do. So, I tried to do the clipping for you, asking you to help me find the other “yellow ones” or whatever color I happened to be holding. But you are little miss independent, and you’d rather not do it at all than let me help you. And you were totally not in to the matching thing. You can see how this activity ended (rather quickly) when we first tried it a few weeks ago.
Gave it another go this week with slightly better results, but still not quite there. We tried just the matching first, with no clips. You can see where you got it right in the photo below. You matched the 2 yellow ones, but I don’t know if it was intentional or not. Generally, you were just very frustrated with me trying to interact with you at all. You just wanted to stack them all up into one pile and then spread them around the table, hehe. Okay. And then you saw the clips I was hiding behind my back and had to have those too, even though they continue to be a source of frustration. Oh, and you love trying to pick the Mickeys off the paint chips too. They’re glued on and you figure they must be stickers since there’s an edge to grab on to.
Those are frustrated looks in the photos above, the kind of faces we aren’t necessarily going for when we’re “playing.” So we put those away and tried a different kind of matching, a foam number puzzle I got from the dollar store. This was a much greater success. You still need help to line them up when you’re putting them back in, but you have no problem taking them out or pressing them in when I help line them up. And I could tell… very satisfying activity for you. I guess it’s kind of like stickers. You stick it in. And take it out. Kept you happily playing for quite some time. And we got to talk about numbers and colors while we played.